Time to join the crimson side and come to "Usual Suspects" :^) . No. Seriously. Join us. Yer sound like a friendly person and if you don't mind being dragged along through all purple dungeons, then there's a good chance that you'll end up with better gear and profit more quickly including joining endgame raids and other benefits. If you haven't found a clan yet, hit me up via pm ingame or here on forums ( ign in my signature). Otherwise I hope yer found nice peeps and friendlier f8 groups. Cheers C:

There are two first step outfits- if you want to complete the hm store outfit section in your wardrobe, the purple first step is a must have. I for one got about 5 sets that I missed during their sale period so I'm really happy. I wasn't aiming for rosethorn since it's just too extra for me overall, it's just too overloaded. The weapon skins look nice. I opened about 30 chests +- and got almost all the outfits that I was missing+ a nice weapon skin for my Bm alt. C:

It's not so much about dps but keeping your threat skills active, for example counter or using threat skills constantly. Tanking also requires knowing boss moves in an out. If you get hit, knocked back or stunned, you lose your aggro holding skill effects which you have to keep up 24/7. After all, your job is to make your parties life easier so that they can brain afk. The problem is that, unlike ranged classes or non-threat users, you can't just stand in one spot ( well I try to keep evasion in a stable rotation so that the dps' people can stay and do their thing) and some bosses tend to move around a lot. If you're in a guild run then it should be sensible if classes like fm or wl look out for that ( most of the time they ignore you though and keep doing their thing which is annoying to be quite frank). If you're having problems to keep up aggro, then I advise working on your crit damage and crit as well as practicing boss moves and buff timers or aggro rotations that suit your playstyle.
@Wataru No. There is a reason why not every class has threat skills and a lack of evasion possibilities- they're meant to dps, faceroll and die if they suddenly have aggro. B&S is designed around group work and semi roles to defeat bosses- if there are no tanks, then it will be a running fest ( mostly people running away from bosses because they never bothered with the moves) and "who gets to the boss faster before the timer runs out" or just a dps race against the boss killing you. If a tank makes playing your class boring, then you're playing it wrong. It also means that they're doing their job as intended.

You're wrong, very wrong. All outfits ( except for enchanted seductress/temptress), including the accessories, drop from the twins and Hujin in Bloodshade Harbor ( as well as 24-man).
(missing one there)
Droprates for me ( solo) from left:
Temptress ( most common drop) - 10 runs ( comes as a ticket), you can drop one ticket every +- 10-20 runs ( average)
Noble of the Sea (Hujin drop)- can't tell because it was a random drop during old daily challenge ( sorry)
Blindfold- 1 in every 20-30 runs ( I dropped two in total)
Mask- ok this one took me 50runs to get
Hair- 86 runs.
If you're on jinsoyun and interested, we could farm them together next week. I will most likely want them on muh gunnerbby :3 you'llneedcoffeetho
Zaiwei Achievement vendor ( I'm always broke, don't judge I don't even know where my gold is going tbh..)

Clans can craft faction veils that render them hostile towards the opposing faction- and there is clan pvp, which is not entirely faction but still clan vs clan. I remember Blade&Soul having a third faction back then when the storyline offered two paths- light and dark path. You got a different outfit and could engage in different faction pvp entirely. However, that didn't work out and that system had been removed ( hence why you're now saving Jinsoyun). Other than that clan outfits shouldn't be hostile imo, since they are mostly fashion.

That's why things are called "exclusive"- people who didn't get the items for one reason or another during a specific time are not meant to get them anymore. I'd be "borderline elitist" too if ncSoft sold these outfits as the maximum founder pack perk (120€ mind you) and then give away an ugly recolor- but the original design nontheless- for free. It wouldn't matter what outfit it is to be honest, as long as it's a founder perk or was only available through an ( expensive) promotion ( with no give-aways). Of course people will feel scammed, think of them too lol. But we're just the evil elitists here, gotcha. One would think that at least founder items would be exceptions when it comes to recolouring outfits but alas, I wasn't disappointed. Quick Draw will still look better as the original- I'ma just pray that they're going to recolour Transcendence in a pretty pink or black if they're going to. Kthanksbai.

Founder titles:
[all packs] The Founder ( D'uh)
Initiate Pack: Pursuer of the Wind, The Founder
Disciple Pack: Defender of the Ancients, The Founder [not sure about Pursuer of the Wind]
Master Pack: The Founder, Pursuer of the Wind, Defender of the Ancients, Master of the golden Path.
Founders ain't dead, people. They just use different titles.

The Nebula event was aimed at players who didn't have their weapons on stage 12 yet- aka people who are still in the middle of gearing for BT; the event is also aimed at future 12man and to close the gap between gear among players. People should know by now that gear paths are being constantly changed and adapted so what are you being mad about exactly? It's a splendid event for the less money and time fortunate out there. Some of my guildies ( including me) use this event to get to the desired weapon stage or go dawn/riftwalk-> raven with the help of nebula stones- which otherwise would have been a pain in the ass to get within a decent amount of time, not gonna mention the costs.

How about no. Founder pack items are EXCLUSIVE to founders and are meant to remain this way. You can be damn sure that Nexon will have all master pack owners up their arse if they even think about selling founder outfits, even recolors. Rare dungeon outfits? Ok, don't mind except for infinity challenge, it has to be earned since it also gives an achievement.

Again, this is not a Witch hunt, nor bullying or anything else. It's in the company's interest that we want proper action to be taken, it doesn't matter WHO the artist is or that they apologized, what matters is that they broke the rules and have to face the consequences. Stop making us look like evil bullies when all we want is people to follow specified guidelines in these type of competitions like everybody else and the respected company to respond in order to avoid such mistakes from the artists and hosts in the future. End of story.

Raindeavour is completely correct. Please stop defending plagiarism and call it "getting inspired". It's harmful to the artist community and competitions of any sort.
No heartfelt apology will change the fact that the artist broke the rules and should learn from their mistake and that's coming from a fellow artist.
No harm intended- stick to the rules, pay attention to your design and don't get too consumed into wanting it to look like something from a certain source because then you end up copying it, intended or not. Been there, done that, learned my lesson. Instead, try to make it your own design by turning your inspiration around and think out of the box. Combine multiple areas of your favourite outfit into something new, reinvent it. That's what inspiration means. I too was told that my design is "exactly" like an existing outfit which I'm still busy with comparing because I don't see about any resemblance apart from the male shoulder perhaps ( my inspiration was Jiwan btw, the flower and golden pattern in particular and some unreleased male set for which I would make a male..). I'm also fairly certain that this applies to the other finalists as well ( for example BlackMoon maybe being heavily Mabinogi Heroes inspired or any mmorpg involving heavy armor) In that sense it's only fair to the rest to state an example and make clear that artists share the responsibility to stick to rules and not play on the empathy of others or social justice.
The artist did not use their own intellectual property, hence they broke the rules as stated in the competition Terms of use and should be disqualified.
This Artist has been "singled out" for the mere reason that their work was too obviously copied that it's literally "in your face". How are people supposed to respond to that? Ignore it? No, that feeds plagiarism and it makes me sad that so many people willingly support it. Your state of ignorance amazes me, so does the lack of investigation from NcSoft. Kudos to everyone who stands up for this very fragile (digital) art community- we already struggle enough, no need to make it worse.
I work as a freelance Artist and clients sometimes ask me to take parts from their favourite illustrations and just "somehow copy paste them "into their commission since "everyone does that, right? What does it even matter, nobody will notice with all the art around". No. I don't do that and I lose said clients and they probably will search until they find one to do it for them. Getting inspiration is completely different from copying.
Inspiration means yes- you can copy paste an item onto a different layer, lower the transparency and use it as a reference to how your own item could look in terms of shape. Copying means to take the whole item as it is ( including colours) and just paste it into your design. not changing a thing.
This a small difference of an immensive high importance. Please don't do that. Don't protect stealing and if you are her friends, please be more honest with her. She won't grow as an artist if you keep telling her that the way she designs is completely fine. She's got a lot of potential in that field so please do her a favour and stop wrapping her into a pink bubble.